Published 10:00 pm, Thursday, February 10, 2011

Christopher Williams, also known as "Dookie," is wanted on a $150,000 warrant out of Island County Superior Court. Prosecutors charged him Feb. 4 with drive-by shooting.

Detective Mike Bailey with the Oak Harbor Police Department cautioned that Williams should be considered armed and dangerous. Anyone who spots him or has knowledge of his whereabouts should call 911. Williams had been living in Oak Harbor in recent months, but was originally from Oakland, Calif., and has tied to Olympia.

"He could be anywhere," Bailey said.

Oak Harbor resident Timothy Howard, 30, was charged as an accomplice in the drive-by shooting. Howard was wanted on a $100,000 warrant, but Bailey said he was able to track him down last Friday to a trailer home he was hiding out in.

In addition, a 42-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of rendering criminal assistance to Howard.

Detective Bailey has spent the last six weeks investigating the gunplay that occurred in the city following New Year's Eve festivities. What complicates the case, Bailey said, is that the alleged victim in the drive-by shooting is a suspect in a separate gun-pointing incident.

Bailey explained that the violence started outside the Element Nightclub in downtown Oak Harbor at closing time. Shaunyae Allen, a 25-year-old Oak Harbor man, got into a fight with a group of women outside the club; someone hit him over the head with a pink bottle.

One of the young women involved in the fight called her nephew, Christopher Williams, and told him that Allen had hit her, Bailey said. Williams and Howard allegedly went out looking for revenge against Allen, the detective said.

Allen was driving home from the Element in his girlfriend's car when a green Jeep SUV pulled up next to him on NW Cathlamet Drive. Williams was in the Jeep's passenger seat and shot at Allen, hitting the car twice, according to Bailey.

The police later recovered two bullets from the car and four empty shell casings on NW Cathlamet. The casings were identified as Hornady .380-caliber autos.

After being shot at, Allen drove to his apartment on Crosby Avenue. He happened to see a woman, who he mistakenly thought was involved in the fight at the nightclub, standing outside a neighboring apartment building. He walked over, pointed a gun at her and uttered a threatening remark, court documents indicate.

For the gun-pointing incident, prosecutors charged Allen in Island County Superior Court with assault in the second degree with a deadly weapon and possession of a stolen firearm.

According to the police, Williams will be featured on Washington's Most Wanted, a Q-13 FOX show, on Friday and Saturday.